Kate Middleton's ancestor Benjamin Fairfax

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John Brandon

Kate Middleton's ancestor Benjamin Fairfax

Legg inn av John Brandon » 08 jun 2006 19:50:31

WARG's ahnentafel for Kate Middleton (
http://www.wargs.com/royal/kate.html ) shows her with an ancestor
#1204, John Meadows, vicar of Ousden, who married 1675 to Sarah
Fairfax, daughter of #2410, one Benjamin Fairfax, by his wife Bridget
Stringer. A note at the bottom of the page says, "He is plausibly the
Benjamin Fairfax who was a brother of Sarah Fairfax, wife of
Bartholomew Allerton, a Mayflower passenger who returned to England."

This seems to be correct. There is a book by Edgar Taylor entitled
_The Suffolk Bartholomeans: A Memoir of the Ministerial and Domestic
History of John Meadows, Clk., A.M., Formerly Fellow of Christ's
College, Cambridge, Ejected Under the Act of Uniformity from the
Rectory of Ousden in Suffolk_ (London: William Pickering, 1840). On p.
72 is a discussion of Rev. John Meadows' second wife:

http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/docum ... 4542&REC=1

"Such were the lineage and relations of Sarah Fairfax, the second wife
of Mr. Meadows; and certainly a more fitting and honourable
alliance--honourable by distinguished birth, and still more so by
connection on every hand with confessors in the cause of conscience and
religion--could hardly have been found by a minister, himself a
suffering disciple in the same cause. Mrs. Meadows, who has already
been described as a grand-daughter of the ejected minister of Rumburgh,
was one of the children of his eldest son Benjamin, and therefore niece
of John and Nathaniel Fairfax, the two other Bartholomeans mentioned
above."

"Sist. Allerton" is mentioned on p. 125, so this is certainly the
family into which Isaac Allerton's son Bartholomew married. A chart on
p. 64-a also shows "Sarah [Fairfax], wife of B. Allerton, minister of
Bramfield," as well as her niece "Sarah [Fairfax], 2d wife of John
Meadows, clk."

Page 66 mentions a pedigree to be "sent into Suffolk, by Charles
Fairfax, esq., son of Sir Thomas Fairfax first Baron of Cameron, to be
presented to his much honored cousins, branches of this family, in
Norfolk and Suffolk; more particularly to _his cousin Fairfax, the
reverend pastor of the church of Barking in Suffolk, to be by him
communicated." This person would be Rev. John Fairfax (d. 1700) of
Barking, brother of Benjamin Fairfax and Sarah (Fairfax) Allerton.

Thus it seems these Suffolk Fairfaxes were a branch of the northern
family.



John Brandon

Re: Kate Middleton's ancestor Benjamin Fairfax

Legg inn av John Brandon » 17 jun 2006 06:45:11

Here is what vol. 17 of the Mayflower Families Through Five Generations
(the silver books)--Family of Isaac Allerton-- says:

p. 4:

2 BARTHOLOMEW2 ALLERTON (Isaac1) b. Leyden, Holland ca. 1612; d.
prob. Bramfield, Co. Suffolk bet. 15 Oct. 1658 and 19 Feb. 1658/9.
He m. (1) MARGARET ------.
He m. (2) prob. Co. Suffolk Eng. SARAH FAIRFAX, b. prob.
Rumbough [sic], Co. Suffolk; d. prob. Halesworth, Co. Suffolk bet. 13
Sept. 1678 and 6 Nov. 1679; dau. of Benjamin and Sarah (Galliard)
Fairfax.
Bradford wrote "Bartle is married in England but I know not
how many children he hath."
Banks says: "A chancery suit of 1657 in which Bartholomew
Allerton was a defendant relates to property in Suffolk, The Parties
being residents of Norfolk."
The will of Bartholomew Allerton, clerk, of Bramfield, Co.
Suffolk dated 15 Oct. 1658, proved 19 Feb. 1658/9, mentions deceased
wife Margaret; living wife Sarah; and children (not named). The
witnesses were Benjamin and Nathaniel Fairfax.
The will of Sarah Allerton of Halesworth, widow, dated 13
Sept. 1678, proved 6 Nov. 1679, names her brother John Fairfax of
Barking as executor and mentions son Isaac Allerton; dau. Mary Auger;
dau. Dorothy Rousham; and son John Allerton; brothers Benjamin and
Nathaniel Fairfax.

Children (ALLERTON) b. England:

i. ISAAC3
ii. MARY m. ----- AUGER
iii. DOROTHY m. ----- ROUSHAM
iv. JOHN

References: BANKS ENGLISH ANCESTRY pp. 29-30. Prerogative Court of
Canterbury 92 Pell (Bartholomew will). Candler Ms. (Harl. Ms. 6071)
(Fairfax fam.). Archdeaconry of Suffolk, Registered Wills 73:208
(Sarah Allerton). MQ 40:7-10. MD 1:12 (Bradford).

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Perhaps we'll soon have a flood of applications from England to join
the Mayflower Society, now that the Bartholomew Allerton line is known
to be distantly related to Kate Middleton!

Below are a few errors I've spotted in the Allerton "silver book":

pp. 39-40 (sketch of Ebenezer Hawkes of Lynn and Marblehead):

His first wife Elizabeth Cogswell is called "dau. of John and Mary
(Gifford) Cogswell." This should be John and *Margaret* (Gifford)
Cogswell.

His second wife, whom he married a Lynn in 1719 was "SARAH (BASSETT)
(GRIFFIN) NEWHALL, b. Lynn. 6 Dec. 1676; d. Marblehead 27, 3rd mo.
(May) 1732; dau. of William and Sarah (Hood) Bassett. She m. (1) Lynn
13 June 1696 Joseph Griffin. She m. (2) ----- Newhall."

The identity of Ebenezer Hawkes' second wife is important to the
discussion of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Cogswell) Hawkes' daughter
Elizabeth, who married her step-brother Joseph Griffin. On p. 107, the
text states that this "JOSEPH GRIFFIN [was] b. perhaps Roxbury 2 Jan.
1694 ... son of Joseph and Sarah (Bassett) Griffin." If, however, as
stated above, Sarah Bassett married Joseph Griffin at Lynn in June
1696, either the suggested date of birth of the younger Joseph is
wrong, or Sarah Bassett was not his mother (though perhaps an earlier
wife of Joseph Griffin was).

John Brandon

Re: Kate Middleton's ancestor Benjamin Fairfax

Legg inn av John Brandon » 17 jun 2006 17:43:01

Checking _Windham [Maine] in the Past_, I see that Ebenezer Hawkes, son
of Ebenezer and Anna (Breed) Hawkes, and grandson of Ebenezer and
Elizabeth (Cogswell) Hawkes, is supposed to have married a Sarah
Griffin, no parents named. But I suspect this was his cousin, daughter
of Joseph and Elizabeth (Hawkes) Griffin. Sarah is not mentioned in
the family group of Joseph and Elizabeth Griffin in the "silver book,"
but neither of them is known to have made a will. The will of the
grandfather Ebenezer Hawkes is the main source of knowledge about the
children of Joseph and Elizabeth, and names only Benjamin, Ebenezer,
and Elizabeth Griffin. If, however, their sister Sarah had already
married her cousin Ebenezer Hawkes III (who isn't mentioned by name in
Ebenezer I's will ["grandchildren, children of son Ebenezer,
deceased"], perhaps she was subsumed under that title.

John Brandon

Re: Kate Middleton's ancestor Benjamin Fairfax

Legg inn av John Brandon » 17 jun 2006 21:04:53

One other oddity I'd noticed in the Allerton "silver book" occurs in
its account of Mary Cushman and her husband, Francis Hutchinson of Lynn
and Reading.

On p. 9, in the sketch of Rebecca Maverick (who married John Hawkes as
his first wife), we find Hawkes described as "son of Adam and Ann
(?Brown) (Hutchinson) Hawkes." Likewise, on p. 15, in the sketch of
Sarah Cushman (who married the same John Hawkes as his second wife),
John is described as "son of Adam and Ann (?Brown) (Hutchinson)
Hawkes."

But on p. 8, under Mary Cushman, who married Francis Hutchinson, the
husband is called "son of ----- and Ann (----) Hutchinson." Apparently
the compilers did not realize that Francis was son of the same Ann
(?Brown) (Hutchinson) Hawkes by her first husband, ---- Hutchinson.

In other words, two sons of Mrs. Ann Hawkes married, between them,
three different grandchildren of Isaac Allerton.

John Brandon

Re: Kate Middleton's ancestor Benjamin Fairfax

Legg inn av John Brandon » 17 jun 2006 21:10:19

But on p. 8, under Mary Cushman, who married Francis Hutchinson, the

Should be p. 14.

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